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UNITED STATES PATENT UEEICE.

cHAELES A. EVARTS, OF MERIDEN, com, ASSIGNOR TO THE BRADLEY a;

HUBBARD MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLAcE.

HANGING LAMP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 284,955, datedSeptember 11, 1883.

Application filed June 23, 1883.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. EVARTS, I of Meriden, in the county ofNew Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement inHanging Lamps and I do hereby declare the following, when taken inconnection with accompanying drawings and the letters of referencemarked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, andrepresent, in

Figure 1, a vertical sectional side view, Fig. 2, a modification of theinvention.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of hanging lampsinwhich a glass or other shade is attached to the fixture above thelamp, the object of the invention being to support the fixture from theedge of the shade, and it consists in the construction as hereinafterdescribed, and more particularly reciter in the claims.

A represents the shade-ring, which is constructed to nearly fit theupperedge or neck of the shade. To this ring the harp B, or frame whichsupports the lamp-fount, is attached. This harp is of the usual shape,having a branch extending up at eachside and into connection with theshade-ring. The shade O itself is secured to the shade-ring by. theusual screws, or preferably by helical springs D, attached to theshade-ring, and extending down either inside or outside the shade, andhooked or engaged with the lower edge of the shade, as shown.

E is the supportingring for the fixture. This ring is made of L shape intransverse section-that is, so as to produce a flange, (1, upon itslower edge, which will pass beneath the shade, and so that the loweredge of the shade will rest thereon. This ring extends up outside theshade, and may be made ornamental, in accordance with any desirabledesign. To this ring E several chains or cords, F, are attached, andpass up'through openings 2) in the shade-ring A, and thence to the pointof suspension above. By this construction the fixture is supportedentirely by the ring E, and this ring, while supporting the fixture,

protects the edge of the shade and adds a highly-ornamental feature tothe fixture.

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While I prefer to employ some device for securing the ring A to theshade, such securing device is not essential, for the reason that, theshade resting upon the ring E and the ring A upon the shade, the oneserves to locate the 5 5 other; but a device for securing the ring Atothe shade or shade to the ring makes a more permanent and strongerconstruction than if the one be simply laid upon the other. The chainsF, attached to the ring E and passing 6o through openings in the upperring, A, bring the chains into the same space above the shade that theyoccupy when attached directly to the shade-ring A, as in the usualconstruction, so that the general appearance of the lamp, so far as thechains are concerned, does not differ materially from that class oflamps in which the support is dependent upon the shade-ring.

lVhile I prefer to extend the chains or cords from the lower or secondring, E, upward through openings in the upper ring, the said cords orchains may extend upward independent of said upper ring, and eitheroutside or inside of it, and whereby the entire support of the shade andthe frame will be brought upon the said second ring in Fig. 2, theright-hand side showing the chains passing up outside the outer ring andthe left-hand side passing up inside the upper ring.

I claim a 1. In a hanging lamp, the combination of the shade ring A, theframe or harp attached thereto, the shade G, the ring E, and chains orcords attached to the ring E and extending upward through openings inthe ring A to the point of suspension, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the ring E, chains or cords extending therefromand by which the 0 lamp is suspended, the shade O, resting on said ringE, the ring A, resting on the neck of the shade, and the harp or frameattached to said ring A, substantially as described.

3. The combination of the ring E, the ring A, the shade 0 between saidrings, the ring A, carrying the lamp-support, and mechanism,substantially such as described, to secure said ring A to the neck ofthe shade, with the chains or cords F, attached to said ring E below andI00 extending upward through openings in the ing therefrom to the pointof suspension, ring A to the point of suspension; substanwhereby saidshade and lamp are supported IO tially as described. c by means of saidsecond ring, substantially as 4. In a hanging-lamp fixture, thecombinadescribed. 5 tion of the shade, a ring arranged upon the CHAS. A.EVARTS.

neck of the shade, the lamp-support attached Vitnesses:

to said ring, a second ring around the lower I F. J. SEIDENSTIOKER,'edge of the shade, and chains or cords extend- A. M. BROOKS.

